Rapper Ice Cube is in negotiations to star in a remake of 1948 comedy MR
BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE - originally starring Hollywood icon CARY
GRANT.

The original version of the movie, featuring the legendary Grant alongside
actress Myrna Loy, focused on an advertising executive who took his family from
a cramped New York apartment to a country home in Connecticut.

The updated version of the film, which begins production in the summer
(05), is being directed by Steve Carr, who also helmed Cube's comedy NEXT
FRIDAY.